Software Engineer, Compute (8+ YOE)

Airtable

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Airtable’s infrastructure is evolving to meet the needs of our fast growing engineering org. We are looking for backend engineers to join our team to help improve critical product infrastructure, with a focus on building systems that have a great developer experience and will scale as we grow. We currently have openings on: * Asynchronous Serving: The Asynchronous Serving team is scaling critical systems used by Airtable’s most essential and up-and-coming product features, especially AI features. Upcoming projects include refactoring our background task queue to track its tasks in DynamoDB, adding quality of service to the job queue, and revamping a streaming service to handle 10x scale while being more resilient. * Compute: The compute pod builds and manages our Kubernetes-based platform that supports every service at Airtable, including all new AI services such as vector databases, AI evals store, and document extraction and understanding services. We have a lot of exciting foundational work in our roadmap, such as * * Overhauling our network stack and service discovery, to simplify service setup and strengthen security * Region level disaster recovery, and bringing up compute platform from 0->1 in a new region * Building custom Kubernetes operators for reliably managing some of our most critical workloads * Traffic: We are looking for founding members of our Traffic Engineering team. We recently formed a Traffic Infrastructure team to ensure that traffic across Airtable’s network and routing infrastructure is managed in a reliable, flexible, and secure manner. Some the upcoming work in this team's charter include supporting improved performance in our secondary regions (like EU), bolstering our rate limiting and admission control infrastructure, and creating a consolidated and unified stateless route execution platform. We are looking for software engineers experienced in areas of API gateway (Envoy/Nginx/Pingora), edge networking like CDN/WAF, and stateless request serving platforms. Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time: * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based remotely in the greater Seattle area WHAT YOU'LL DO * Proactively identify and lead significant improvements to Airtable’s infrastructure, working across teams and product areas to maximize business and engineering impact. * Work on systems-level problems in a complex design space where scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security really matter. * Build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions that will be used by Airtable’s engineers for years to come. * Take full ownership of components of Airtable’s infrastructure, including responsibility for reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability of our production environment. WHO YOU ARE * You have at least 8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment. Please note this is not an early career position. * You have experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure. * You derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions in order to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand. * You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field. * You are currently based or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City for this role. Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.  VEVRAA-Federal Contractor If you have a medical condition, disability, or religious belief/practice which inhibits your ability to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please complete our Accommodations Request Form and let us know how we may assist you. Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location, relevant skills, and experience. Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable. For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, the base salary range for this role is: $196,000—$339,900 USD Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Airtable’s collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here. For applicants that live in or have a link to Australia, please see this Privacy Collection Statement for details regarding Airtable's collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process. 🔒 Stay Safe from Job Scams All official Airtable communication will come from an @airtable.com email address. We will never ask you to share sensitive information or purchase equipment during the hiring process. If in doubt, contact us at hr@airtable.com. Learn more about avoiding job scams here.

Airtable

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible platform that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us. As a Full-Stack, Front-End leaning engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful.  We currently have openings on: * The Self Serve Funnel Team (Full-Stack/FE) is responsible for onboarding and retaining users that come through our self serve channels. Airtable is infinitely configurable. This is both its greatest strength and its biggest onboarding challenge: there isn't one way to use it, so there isn't one way to teach it. As an engineer on the Funnel & Activation Team you will take advantage of frontier AI capabilities to build modern, cutting-edge onboarding experiences that push the industry standard. Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time: * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration WHAT YOU'LL DO * Spec and build product features that are beautiful, consistent, and fast, that encourage exploration, and that earn the trust of our customers through predictable, reliable, and thoughtful interactions. * Work at all levels of the stack, from AWS, Node.js, and SQL to React, HTML. and CSS to build and maintain end to end products on Airtable. * Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand the needs of potential users and build a product that unlocks their potential. * Work alongside and learn from a talented group of engineers with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds. WHO YOU ARE * You have 8+ years of industry experience with modern full-stack web development, with particular emphasis on user facing feature development and full stack work. * You have led large scale strategic initiatives and implemented technical strategy.  * You are fluent in one or more frontend and backend technologies, and are interested in programming in JavaScript and React. * You are excited by a product-oriented full stack or frontend role.  * You have a good understanding of web technologies and large-scale web application architecture. * You have a background in computer science or a related field. * You believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business. * You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right. * You have strong convictions, weakly held and assume validation and iteration are a given to produce the best results. * You show strong ownership instincts and sweat the details. * You are currently based and/or will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.  VEVRAA-Federal Contractor If you have a medical condition, disability, or religious belief/practice which inhibits your ability to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please complete our Accommodations Request Form and let us know how we may assist you. Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location, relevant skills, and experience. Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable. For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, the base salary range for this role is: $213,000—$339,900 USD Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Airtable’s collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here. For applicants that live in or have a link to Australia, please see this Privacy Collection Statement for details regarding Airtable's collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process. 🔒 Stay Safe from Job Scams All official Airtable communication will come from an @airtable.com email address. We will never ask you to share sensitive information or purchase equipment during the hiring process. If in doubt, contact us at hr@airtable.com. Learn more about avoiding job scams here.

Airtable

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible platform that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us. As a Full-Stack, Backend engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful. We currently have openings on: * The Admin & Governance Team (Full-Stack/BE) ensures Airtable is secure, compliant, and enterprise-ready. It owns key admin capabilities like the Admin Panel, SSO, and audit systems, as well as foundational features like User Groups. This team's mission is to accelerate organizational value for the largest customers with enterprise-first governance and controls. * The Omni Capability & Quality Team (Full-Stack/BE) brings the power of AI directly to Airtable end users—helping them search, navigate, and operate their bases with ease. While other teams focus on embedding AI throughout the platform and building tools for creators, our mission is simple: make AI immediately helpful with little to no setup. From the moment someone opens a base, installs a solution, or uses a template, AI should be there—ready to assist. Our pod also builds much of Airtable's AI platform that helps other engineering teams produce quality AI products. * The Platform Interoperability Team (Full-Stack/BE) builds the systems that allow agents, integrations, and connected workflows to interact with Airtable as a platform. As AI agents become a primary interface for how work gets done, we're ensuring Airtable is a first-class participant in that ecosystem. This team's mission is to make Airtable the most capable and well-connected platform in the agentic ecosystem. We're building the infrastructure that lets humans and agents alike treat Airtable as a source of truth they can reliably act on, whether through direct integrations, AI-powered workflows, or large-scale data operations. Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time: * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration WHAT YOU'LL DO * Design and build systems that dramatically increase the scalability and performance of all applications built on Airtable, to earn the trust of our customers through predictable, reliable, and thoughtful interactions. * Work at the deep backend of the Airtable software stack within the Enterprise Product portion of the org, just above the Infrastructure org. * Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand the needs of potential users and build a product that unlocks their potential. * Work alongside and learn from a talented group of engineers with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds. WHO YOU ARE * You have 8+ years of industry experience with modern systems development, ideally database internals development. * You are interested in programming in TypeScript and Rust. * You are excited by a product-oriented backend role, i.e. not pure Infrastructure. * You have a good understanding of modern web technologies and large-scale web application architecture. * You have a background in computer science or a related field. * You believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business. * You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right. * You have strong convictions, weakly held and assume validation and iteration are a given to produce the best results. * You show strong ownership instincts and sweat the details. * You are currently based and/or will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.  VEVRAA-Federal Contractor If you have a medical condition, disability, or religious belief/practice which inhibits your ability to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please complete our Accommodations Request Form and let us know how we may assist you. Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location, relevant skills, and experience. Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable. For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, the base salary range for this role is: $213,000—$339,900 USD Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Airtable’s collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here. For applicants that live in or have a link to Australia, please see this Privacy Collection Statement for details regarding Airtable's collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process. 🔒 Stay Safe from Job Scams All official Airtable communication will come from an @airtable.com email address. We will never ask you to share sensitive information or purchase equipment during the hiring process. If in doubt, contact us at hr@airtable.com. Learn more about avoiding job scams here.